Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.
The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.
While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.
Fuckin wild that we’re reading shit like this.
He’s not even in office yet and threatening war with Mexico. This is going to be a long 4 years
Didn’t the nazi’s start with their neighbors too?
The Nazis annexed 3 neighbors without even firing a shot.
The US doesn’t even have 3 neighbors.Uhm…You actually do.
Who the fuck are you calling "you*?
Land connected countries I think it’s only two (direct neighbors): Mexico and Canada. Is there another country I’m missing? If we can continue down south we get into Guatemala and Belize. If we allow water traversal, then the Caribbean is full of places.
I don’t see many of these locations not fighting back one way or another, either directly or through international responses. Germany at least had some casus belli for annexing territory through ethnic/cultural grounds and/or historical border European nation border changes. The US has no such thing to work with, we’d just be obviously complete assheads to annex anything at this point.
Land connected is 2, but Cuba is also right there
We also have a bit of an established history invading Cuba.
If we’re conting islands then we also have the bahamas, dominican republic, british virgin islands, anguilla, and st kitts & nevis
As long as it ends in 4 years. Otherwise it’s going to be much longer and much bloodier
Granting that he doesn’t Die
You’re ignoring that he promised his followers that they wouldn’t have to vote, anymore…
Don’t expect to ever be allowed to vote him out.
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2016-2020 was filled to the brim with daily headlines of all the stupid, backward, hateful, fascist shit trump & co were up to. The next n years will be no better.
There’s a documentary about this situation on Paramount+ right now called Season 2 of Lioness
yeah im still trying to piece together the grammar in the title of this post.
Looking like Mexico will be Trump’s Poland.
If things go south here in Ukraine, Poland still has a chance to be Trump’s Poland
isn’t Ukraine south of Poland already?
No it’s to the east.
This feels like musk motivation there it must be for lithium in Mexico.
You mean Mr “we’ll coup whoever we want”. Surely not.
If the fucker has 2 brain cells, he’d want a better battery.
Hopefully Mexico won’t announce they found oil or lithium near cartel territories anytime soon.
Mexico doesn’t have to announce it. The US is more than happy to make the announcement before them. Evidence includes “Yellow Cake”, “WMDs in Iraq”, and the fact that our incoming president lies without even thinking at all times.
Think the ML bears will be around to call out genocide?
So funny to me how Lemmy users love beefing with each other. They live in your head rent free. No one even said anything you’re just sitting there creating situations in your head like the right wingers you “hate”
I’m pretty sure you’re a Lemmy user.
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Mexican president dismisses possible ‘soft invasion’ by U.S. troops as ‘a movie’
Aww, but I’ve already seen this one. It’s called Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
“soft invasion”? Do you mean some kind of “special operation”?
I wonder where these ideas are coming from?
Yeah. Reads like the same shit the CIA has been doing since there’s been a CIA
Any offensive attack against any central or south American country would cause a catastrophic chain of events that would end America as a global power. First it would not only put us at war with every central and South America country but most of the EU and UN nations. South and Central America countries would instantly nullify their anti nuclear weapon agreements. Add in the fact that a large percentage of US citizens have ties to those nation so instantly there would mass unrest in every state. Hell the military wouldn’t be able to mobilize enough people willing to kill friends and family for an offensive war.
Would the Mexican MAGAT voters support a US invasion of Mexico?
That is how tv “celebrity” trump views the world. Drama is his life’s blood.
As an American, I have no one to support in this escalating conflict.
I hope they invade. I will enroll in the mexican army ahah I hate yanks
Go make guns and get them into schools then. Don’t need to be in a war to made some Yanks dead. We’ll fucking do it ourselves.
Personally I think it’s high time Mexico accepts some help with their cartel problem. They’ve literally made zero progress after decades.
America need some help too. Organized crime in the US just merged with corporations and bought up most of the politicians. Now their crimes are mostly legal.
It won’t be, nor should it be, the US “helping”… we literally elected our cartel leaders to POTUS…
Personalmente, espero que no seas yankee
Wrong, the demand for the illegal drugs is in the USA and you need to cut that off.
Legalise drugs and you collapse the cartels
